Jane Austen's natural world???real and fictional???comes to life in this colorful, illustrated stroll through the gardens, parks and great estates ...
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Jan 04, 2010
Laurel
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“To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure, is the most perfect refreshment.” Fanny Price, Mansfield Park, Chapter 9
It seems quite fitting that a quote from Jane Austen’s character Fanny Price, who is an astute observer of natural beauty, should open this book with such a succinct statement expressing her delight in being planted on the bench in Sotherton’s parkland to enjoy the serene beauty of the green landscape around her. Verdure is not a word that one runs acros More...
It seems quite fitting that a quote from Jane Austen’s character Fanny Price, who is an astute observer of natural beauty, should open this book with such a succinct statement expressing her delight in being planted on the bench in Sotherton’s parkland to enjoy the serene beauty of the green landscape around her. Verdure is not a word that one runs acros More...
May 15, 2011
Meredith (Austenesque Reviews)
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(Note: This review is of the 2011 edition published by Frances Lincoln Limited, which is hard cover and includes seventy color photographs, twenty-five period drawings, and five garden plans.)
Kitchen gardens, extensive shrubberies, enchanting vistas, labyrinths, gothic seats, hermitages – wouldn't you just love to live in Jane Austen's time and have all these natural and picturesque settings
surround you? While I love the modern conveniences and freedoms of the twenty-first c More...
Kitchen gardens, extensive shrubberies, enchanting vistas, labyrinths, gothic seats, hermitages – wouldn't you just love to live in Jane Austen's time and have all these natural and picturesque settings
surround you? While I love the modern conveniences and freedoms of the twenty-first c More...
Jun 05, 2011
Megan
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This is a wonderful book. It covers cottage gardens, mansion/manor gardens, city gardens and public gardens in places where Jane Austen lived, traveled to or used in her books. There is also a chapter on how to recreate Jane Austen's various gardens at Chawton Cottage as well as a mansion garden, a great estate garden, and a city garden. The book also contains a list of the gardens used while filming the various movies based on the novels of Jane Austen.
The book uses excerpts from Aus More...
The book uses excerpts from Aus More...
Jan 02, 2010
Carmen
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Kim Wilson ties together Jane Austen's books with houses and gardens. In doing so, she explains some of the references in Jane Austen's books. I am one of those crazy persons who likes combining vacations with books I have read, so this is a perfect match for me. I am also in deep winter here in Colorado, snow for two weeks already, so I am day dreaming and planning next summer's garden. The pictures really lifted my spirits.
Jun 24, 2009
Jeanette
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In the Garden with Jane Austen takes the reader on a tour of all things to do with Georgian and Regency gardens. You come across gardens that Jane herself would have worked in or visited or at the very least knew of. Cottage gardens, manor house gardens, town gardens, and public gardens are all brought to life in wonderful detail and through beautiful photography. We also learn what Jane's favorite plants were as well as other interesting bits of information like how people tried to disguise or
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Mar 11, 2011
Anne
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IN THE GARDEN WITH JANE AUSTEN is a fabulous mix of lush garden photographs, Jane Austen quotes, English gardening history, and planting tips.The plant names themselves are a delicious treat and an invitation to garden: pot marigolds and peonies, lupins and mignonettes. Conveniently, I discovered this book right as the spring garden catalogs started showing up in my mailbox.
Feb 16, 2009
Scott
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Very nice combination of excerpts from Austen novels, letters, and contemporary gardening publications. Discusses the role gardens and landscapes played as settings of the time. Helps to understand the novels better, and gives a good sense of the purpose of various landscape elements and how they were used by the gentry in England ca. 1800.
May 07, 2010
Heather
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This is a great book for those who love Jane Austen and gardening! I now want to take a tour of all the gardens in England that she highlighted! ;o)
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